Digital Imagery for Works of Art

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass.
November 19-20, 2001

Attendee Biographies

Kirk Alexander is the Managing Director of the Educational Technologies Center (ETC) at Princeton University which offers consultation and development services for faculty who wish to explore the use of instructional technology for their teaching and/or research. Kirk has long had an interest in imaging technologies and the application of technology to the enhancement of pedagogy. Kirk designed and brought to fruition several major projects at Princeton involving the integration of 3D computer graphics, image and text databases and classroom instruction including

· "Walks in Rome" a context oriented internet database with interactive graphic animations for complete on-line teaching. An example segment can be viewed in a subset prepared for the Philadelphia Museum of art
· Almagest: A web database cataloguing objects, places people and multimedia content for use in teaching.
· "An Interactive Computer Graphics History of the Evolution of 250 Years of Princeton University's Architecture" in honor of Princeton's 250th Anniversary,
· "The Piero Project" a FIPSE funded endeavor entitled "Teaching Art History with Interactive 3-Dimensional Computer Graphics." and
· The Mappamundi Project (A Multimedia, Illustrated Medieval Dictionary)

Recently the ETC's mission has been expanded to extend the reach of its multimedia database to more academic disciplines and to broaden its offerings of life long learning offerings for Princeton's Alumni. Together these initiatives continue to explore the integration of various computing and imaging technologies in teaching.

Peter K. Allen is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He received the A.B. degree from Brown University in Mathematics-Economics, the M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He heads the Robotics Laboratory at Columbia, where his current research interests include real-time computer vision, dextrous robotic hands, 3-D modeling and sensor planning. Some recent work in 3-D laser scanning of buildings includes scanning the Cathedral of Ste. Pierre in Beauvais, France. He is Principal Investigator on a new NSF Information Technology grant to create new computational tools for Digital Archaeology. In recognition of his work, Professor Allen has been named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Roy S. Berns is the Richard S. Hunter Professor in Color Science, Appearance, and Technology at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory and Graduate Coordinator of the Color Science master's degree program within the Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in textile science from the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry with an emphasis in color science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research includes colorimetry, colorimetric device characterizations of imaging peripherals using spectral models, color tolerance psychophysics, and multi-spectral-based color reproduction. Dr. Berns is active in the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) having contributed to the derivations of the CIE94 and CIE DE2000 color-difference equations as well as other technical contributions in CRT colorimetry, color tolerances, and spectrophotometry. He has served on the board of directors of the Council for Optical Radiation Measurements and the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC). In 1990, he received the ISCC Macbeth award for significant contributions to the field of color. In 1999 he, along with Koichi Iino, received the Society for Imaging Science and Technology journal award (science), which recognizes an outstanding contribution in the area of basic science, published in its technical journal during the preceding year. Also in 1999, Berns received the best paper award from the Society of Plastics Engineers Color and Appearance Division. He has authored over 100 publications and lectured widely throughout the world. During the 1999-2000 academic year, he was on sabbatical at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC as a Senior Fellow in Conservation Science involved in research including colorant selection for inpainting, direct digital capture of works of art, and quantifying the effect of varnishes on the appearance of paintings. During 2000, Dr. Berns was invited to participate in the Technical Advisory Group of the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project. Also during 2000, he wrote the third edition of Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology.

Edward Chang is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1999. He also received a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and another Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford. Ed is a co-founder of Morphosoft Inc., which provides revolutionary Perceptional-base Image Retrieval and filtering solutions.

Jim Coddington is Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art. A paintings conservator he has, in recent years, published on topics including Infra-Red Imaging of 20th Century Works of Art and Jackson Pollock's painting techniques(1) (2) as well as the conservation and restoration of modern and contemporary art. Most recently he has published an article on potential applications of multi-spectral imaging for image analysis. Within the conservation profession he has served for a number of years as liaison to the College Art Association for the American Institute for Conservation, frequently chairing sessions of mutual interest to art historians and conservators. He was also an associate editor of the AIC Journal for many years as well as a member of the program committee for the annual meeting.

David B. Cooper received the B.Sc. and Sc.M degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University in June 1966. Since 1966, as a faculty member in Electrical Sciences And Computer Engineering at Brown University, he has worked in adaptive electronic communications, pattern recognition, image processing, and computer vision. More recently, his research focuses on two areas. The first is shape-based indexing into large image-databases. The second is a multidisciplinary project "3D Free-Form Models for Geometric Recovery and Applications to Archaeology", of which he is PI joined by four COPIs from the departments of Archaeology, Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, with core funding by the National Science Foundation. This has led to the establishment of the S.H.A.P.E. Laboratory. Cooper's present research interests in this laboratory are in estimating 3D surfaces and interesting geometric structure for complex artifacts and objects at archaeology sites from 3D clouds of laser-scanned points or from video, the automatic estimation of mathematical and virtual models of pots, sculpture, and other objects by automatically assembling 3D measurements of unlabeled fragments found at archaeology sites, 3D artifact and object search and comparison capability based on 3D and surface geometry and patterns in order to augment archaeology database search capability, human/computer interaction for 3D shape modeling (and restoration) using new sculpting tools and new virtual materials in a virtual environment, and other problems. Cooper is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).

Bob Englund teaches Assyriology at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles. He finished his BA at the University of California at Berkeley, and, following a year of graduate work at the University of Chicago, moved to Munich, where he wrote his dissertation entitled Verwaltung und Organisation der Ur III-Fischerei (The Administration and Organization of Ur III Fischeries). The thesis is concerned above all with the administration of fisheries in the neo-Sumerian period (ca. 2100-2000 BC), emphasizing an analysis of the accounting terminology in cuneiform archives as a tool for understanding the organization and social position of fishermen and comparable state-dependent workers, and of supervisors of household economic units. Since 1982 he has conducted his major research in Berlin and Los Angeles on the proto-cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia (ca. 3200-3000 BC). He is principle investigator of the NSF-funded project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, dedicated to the electronic documentation and edition of late 4th and 3rd millennium BC cuneiform archives. email: englund@ucla.edu

Michael Ester is currently President of Luna Imaging, Inc. Founded in late 1993, Luna offers organizations consulting and production services to build and distribute high-quality visual collections in digital form, and provides its Insight software systems to manage, access and use rich media collections over the Internet. From 1985 to 1993 Dr. Ester was Director of the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. In collaboration with domestic and international institutions and organizations, AHIP worked at several levels of policy, standards and practice to help shape the direction of automation in the visual arts. Michael Ester was responsible for setting program direction and policy, and for managing its many projects based in the U.S. and in Europe. During his tenure at the Getty, he initiated basic research and technical development in the use of digital imaging as a reproduction medium for the visual arts.

Prior to joining the Getty Trust, Dr. Ester was Information Systems Manager then Director at URS/Berger, a firm conducting remote sensing and environmental studies for the United States Government. He was also formerly General Manager at Technical Data Processing Associates, which provides CAD/CAM systems and services for architectural and engineering applications.

Before entering the private sector, Dr. Ester was on the faculty at Rutgers University, where he taught courses in both computer applications and archaeology. Dr. Ester received his Bachelor's degree in mathematics and anthropology from George Washington University; he earned doctorates in the same disciplines from Brandeis University.

Sarah E. Fraser (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) teaches courses in Chinese and Japanese art with an emphasis on Chinese painting. Fraser's forthcoming book, Performing the Visual: Making Wall Paintings in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Stanford University Press), addresses the status of sketching and issues of cognition and creativity in painting workshops. Her articles and essays include contributions to Artibus Asiae, Orientations, L'art de Dunhuang à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Ècole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1999), and Images in Exchange: Cultural Transactions in Chinese Pictorial Arts (University of California Press). In 1999-2000 she was a Getty Post-Doctoral Fellow and Directrice d'Ètudes at the Ècole Pratique des Hautes Ètudes in Paris. Fraser also directs two international research projects on Buddhist art at Northwestern. Under the auspices of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she contributes to a 3-D image archive of wall paintings and transitive archaeological material from western China. Additionally, with Luce Foundation support, she directs a three-year project entitled "Merit, Opulence, and the Buddhist Network of Wealth," concerning Buddhist material culture. Essays from the conference on this topic hosted with Peking University in Beijing, June 2001, are forthcoming from Shanghai Fine Arts Publishers.

Franziska Frey is Assistant Professor at the School of Printing at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is also a Faculty in the "Mellon Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation" at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography. Franziska Frey received her Ph.D. degree in Natural Sciences (Concentration: Imaging Science) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland in 1994. Her research includes applications of digital imaging in conservation and the visual arts, digital reconstruction of faded color photographs, digital photography, digital asset management, digital preservation, and the permanence of digital prints. Before joining the faculty of the School of Printing, she has worked as a research scientist at the Image Permanence Institute at RIT. Her work has primarily focused on establishing guidelines for viewing, scanning, quality control, and archiving digital images. Franziska publishes, consults, and teaches in the US and around the world on various issues related to establishing digital image databases and digital libraries. She is also actively involved in several international standards groups.

Bernard Frischer earned his B.A. summa cum laude in Classics from Wesleyan University in 1971. He was a Michigan Junior Fellow from 1971-74, during which time he earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude in Classics from the University of Heidelberg. From 1974-76 he was a Rome Prize Fellow in Classics at the American Academy in Rome, where he pursued postdoctoral studies of Roman topography and archaeology. Since 1976 he has taught at UCLA, where he has served as Chair of Classics, Director of Humanities Computing, and Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program. Since 1996 he has been Director of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory and of the American Academy in Rome's Excavation of Horace's Villa. He is the author or co-author of seven books and many articles. His latest book appeared in October, 2001 and is entitled ALLAN RAMSAY AND THE SEARCH FOR HORACE'S VILLA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Ashgate, London 2001). He has won many fellowships and awards including Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (twice), Residency at the American Academy in Rome, and Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He has also been Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and has served as Guest Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Bologna. He defines himself as a digital humanist and has many publications, exhibitions, and products to his credit in the fields of analysis of digital texts and 3D computer modeling of cultural heritage sites.

Bob Futernick is currently acting associate director for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. Bob began as assistant conservator with Roy Perkinson in 1975 at the Fine Arts Museums. He then served as head of paper conservation until taking the job of head of all conservation at the Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum in 1987. During the 1992 closure of the Legion for seismic upgrading, Bob led a team of curators, conservators, and photographers in a comprehensive collection effort that resulted in the creation of a large image database, among other things. In accordance with the Museum mission of public access, over 75,000 images of the collection were made available at thinker.org in 1996. This work has continued, focusing on the all of the art at the de Young Museum. Now that it's closed for rebuilding, Bob has been working with another team of people who have just completed the safe relocation of all de Young collections to an offsite facility where the cataloging and imaging work can continue.

Stephen Griffin is the Program Director for Special Projects and the Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2 in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation.

Corinne Jörgensen graduated from Syracuse University with a Ph.D. in Information Transfer. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she teaches courses in the Masters in Information and Communication (MIC) and in the M.L.S. programs. She teaches in the areas of organization of information, Information Architecture, digital libraries, and scientific and technical information. Her research areas address issues of the impacts of technology on information providers, usability of information systems, and users' information seeking behaviors, with a special focus on users of image and multimedia databases. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications in these areas and has won four national awards for her research (three from ASIS&T, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and one from ALISE, the Association of Library and Information Science Educators). She has been guest editor of a special issue of JASIST (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, September 2001) on "Image Access: Bridging Multiple Needs and Multiple Perspectives," and of the ASIST Bulletin Special Issue on "Theory and Practice in the Indexing and Retrieval of Images and other Visuo-Spatial Data," August/September 1999. She is on the program committees for Electronic Imaging (SPIE), the IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL), and the American Society for Information Science SIG for Classification Research. She has been a co-investigator on research projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the AT&T Foundation, the OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant Program, and the University at Buffalo Multidisciplinary Pilot Project Program. Current projects include participation in the development of the ISO/JTC MPEG-7 standard for content description of multimedia, and she is working on a book, Images: Perception, Representation, and Retrieval.

Kevin Kiernan, one of the co-chairs of this workshop, is Professor of English and recently selected T. Marshall Hahn Sr. Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He is editor of the Electronic Beowulf, which was sponsored in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is co-principal investigator with computer scientists Brent Seales and James Grifffioen of the NSF-sponsored DLI2 project, The Digital Atheneum: new techniques for restoring, accessing, and editing humanities collections, which aims to provide electronic editions of badly damaged early English manuscripts from the British Library's famous Cotton Collection. In 1995 he organized an international conference on Reconnecting Science and Humanities in Digital Libraries, an early anticipation of the current collaborations between computer science and humanities disciplines. He has published widely on Old and Middle English language and literature, in manuscript studies, and in humanities computing.

After receiving the PhD degree in Chemical Physics in 1969, Michael Lesk joined the computer science research group at Bell Laboratories, where he worked until 1984. From 1984 to 1995 he managed the computer science research group at Bellcore, and he is now head of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. He is best known for work in electronic libraries, and his book "Practical Digital Libraries" was published in 1997 by Morgan Kaufmann. His research has included the CORE project for chemical information, and he wrote some Unix system utilities including those for table printing (tbl), lexical analyzers (lex), and inter-system mail (uucp). His other technical interests include document production and retrieval software, computer networks, computer languages, and human-computer interfaces.

Dr. Chung-Sheng Li is the Senior Manager of the e-Commerce and Data Management Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Chung-Sheng Li received his B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has joined the Computer Science division of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member since Sept. 1991, manages the Image Information System Group from 1996 to 1999, the Data Management Department between 1999 and 2000, and assumes the senior manager position for the E-commerce and Data Management Department since June 2000. His research interests, among a broad spectrum of areas, include digital library, information and media marketplace, content-based retrieval of images and image sequence, knowledge discovery and data mining, content adaptation, and pervasive commerce. He has initiated and co-initiated several research programs in IBM on fast tunable receiver for all-optical networks, content-based retrieval in the compressed domain for large image/video databases - the SPIRE project, federated digital libraries, and bio-surveillance. He is currently the principal investigator for the Epi-SPIRE project, which is an environmentally related digital library funded by NASA and a bio-surveillance project funded by DARPA.

During his tenure as Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Design School (HDS) from 1996 to 2000, George Liaropoulos-Legendre taught in the core design sequence and offered introductory courses in design and computation. His award-winning multimedia productions on art and architecture with the Center of Design Informatics of the HDS have been exhibited in Florence, Italy and Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996, he co-authored and published a digital reconstruction of Baccio Bandinelli’s choir during the celebrations of the seventh centennial of the Duomo. His recent installation project for the Busch Reisinger Museum 'SaltoArte, Tumbling Art' was featured at SIGGRAPH 99, 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Los Angeles, California, and at "Brussels, Crossroad of Cultures", an international exhibition held at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels in the fall of 2000.

Henry Lie has worked at the Straus Center for Conservation since 1980 and currently serves as Director and as head of the Objects and Sculpture Laboratory. He received his A.B. in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and M.S. in Art Conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Art Conservation Program. He has worked on archeological excavations in Cyprus, Turkey, Israel and England and specializes in technical studies of ancient bronzes. Henry received the College Art Association/National Institute for Conservation Joint Award for Excellence in Conservation in 1997. In 1998 he was awarded the Samuel H. Kress Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation and Art History/Archaeology at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art to conduct studies of the bronze statuary from Herculaneum's Villa dei Papiri in the National Archeological Museum, Naples. Henry was a founding member of the Getty Conservation Institute's program, Conservation Research in Scientific Imaging for Documentation and Analysis, which sought to promote practical advances in computer imaging applications for conservators and conservation scientists in the early 1990's. He has developed simple methods now widely used in conservation facilities to mosaic infrared and x-radiographic images of artworks and to create layered composites of technical images.

Kirk Martini teaches courses in structural design and in digital media in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, a Master of Science in Structural Engineering and a Master of Architecture in 1982, and in 1990 a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering with minors in mathematics and computer science: all from U.C. Berkeley. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in California where he practiced with a small architecture and engineering firm for three years and worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco part time for three years. In 1989 he worked as a graduate student summer intern at Taisei Construction in Tokyo, and completed post-doctoral studies at Tokyo University in 1992. A recent research project involved collaboration with archaeologist John Dobbins in assessmesment of seismic reconstruction scenarios in ancient Pompeii, making significant use of digital imaging and digital photogrammetry. He uses digital media extensively in his teaching, and has published articles on digital imaging and its use with web technologies in teaching. In addition to courses in structural design, he also teaches a course in Photography and Digital Media.

Paul Messier is head conservator at Boston Art Conservation, a private art conservation studio serving public and private clients throughout the United States. His area of specialization includes photographs, works on paper and electronic media. He is the founder of the American Institute for Conservation's (AIC) Electronic Media Specialty Group and continues to serve AIC in various volunteer capacities including Associate Editor for Electronic Media for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. He is the author of numerous publications dealing with the conservation of photographs. He is the co-author/co-creator of various conservation resources on the web including the Video Format Identification Guide and the Albumen Photography Website which received recognition as an "Editor's Choice" by Popular Science Magazine in June 2001. He is co-creator of TechArcheology, a collaborative project between conservators, artists, curators and technical experts to examine the preservation issues inherent in technology-based art installations. Recent research projects include the assembly and cataloguing of a reference collection for 20th century photographic papers and the development of an authentication methodology for photographs attributed to Lewis Hine. This project resulted in an empirical method useful for dating 20th century photographic papers and has received coverage from publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ArtNews and the Economist.

Sam Quigley is a former curator of musical instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Beginning in 1995 he organized and ran the museum-wide collections information database of about 400,000 object records at that institution. In addition to the compilation of text about the collection, developing imaging work flow systems and support-including the acquisition of images into the database-was a primary focus in his work. Recently, he served as Director of Collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Last spring, he was appointed Director of Digital Information and Technology as part of an initiative to digitize the wealth of research, scholarship and activity at the Harvard University Art Museums. Quigley has spoken and written extensively on museum automation and is on the board of directors of the Museum Computer Network.

Art historian Charles Rhyne, one of the co-chairs of this workshop, has taught at Reed College since 1960, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is an expert on the art of John Constable and on the history, theory and practice of conservation. He has organized exhibitions of major contemporary artists, most recently an exhibition with catalogue of the leading Northwest Coast Native American artist, Robert Davidson. He has published on photographic images as evidence and on the uses of digital images in art history and related disciplines. Several papers on these subjects and an extensive web site on the Architecture of the Getty Center are available on his home page.

Art historian/museum curator Angelica Z. Rudenstine is Program Officer, Museums and Conservation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she is responsible for grant-giving in these two fields. She has served as curator of several major exhibitions, including Kazimir Malevich at the National Gallery, Washington DC and the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Piet Mondrian at the National Gallery, Washington DC and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1985-86, she was adjunct professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her two-volume catalogue of the Guggenheim's permanent collection of paintings was published in 1976. Additional publications include Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection, 1981; Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, 1985 (Alfred H. Barr Award for the outstanding museum catalogue of the year); Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture from the Collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 1988 (Mitchell Prize for 20th Century art).

Brent Seales is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991, and spent the 1991-92 academic year as a visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Since 1991 he has been a faculty member in the Computer Science department at the University of Kentucky. In 1998-99 he was a Visiting Research Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has conducted research in computer vision, visualization, multimedia systems and digital libraries. His major research interests center around the digital image: image formation and acquisition, image understanding, image representation, restoration and enhancement, and image display. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Digital Atheneum project, funded by the NSF DLI2 program.

Art historian Ron Spronk, one of the co-chairs of this workshop, is a specialist in the technical examinations of paintings. Since 1994 he has worked at the Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is Associate Curator for Research at the Straus Center for Conservation. He has published widely, mostly on Early Netherlandish painting, but he also recently co-curated an exhibition on Piet Mondrian's Transatlantic paintings. An important interest of his is the use of digital imaging in art history and conservation, and the development of interactive web sites and computer kiosks for museum galleries.

Jill Sterrett is the Head of Conservation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As a conservator of contemporary art, she is particularly interested in the preservation challenges of new media, in how the materials and the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary art are influencing traditional conservation methodology, and in how fundamental museum functions are open for possible re-interpretation as a result of recent technological developments. She has recently completed research into the studio practices of Eva Hesse and co-authored an entry that will be included in the catalog for the upcoming SFMOMA retrospective of Eva Hesse's work opening in February 2002.

Jill is also the Acting Director of Collections at SFMOMA. In this capacity, it has been her pleasure to work directly with the departments that comprise the Division -- the Department of Collections Information and Access, Conservation, Registration, and the Library -- to formulate integrated systems that support stewardship of the Museum's collection. The most recent collaborative accomplishment of the Division is the completion of an RFP describing the features of a digital asset management tool for the Museum. The RFP was completed with key contributions from curatorial, education, exhibitions, and publications staff.

James Z. Wang is the PNC Technologies Career Development Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Technology and Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Penn State e-Business Research Center. He received a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota (1994), an M.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University (1997), and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University (2000). He has been a visiting scholar at Uppsala University in Sweden, SRI International, IBM Almaden Research Center, and NEC Computer and Communications Research Lab. His monograph Integrated Region-based Image Retrieval has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and included in the Kluwer Series on Information Retrieval.

Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report. He is also the author of numerous articles and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly communications.

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